Mr Joubert is an excellent pianist and, more importantly, an intelligent, sensitive artist, whose playing is at once scholarly and full of personal charm. He possesses very fine keyboard skills and thorough general musicianship. All of his performances that I have heard – across a broad and challenging repertoire – have been of the highest order, never more so than in his incisive and compelling playing of the extraordinary piano music of Janáček. He is a man of unimpeachable probity, good humour and reliability.